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and of course, r&r. rest and relaxation. and to have time during your retreat, if you're doing group processing, make sure that you and your participants have time to nap, take a hike. again, they are unplugged so this is an opportunity to learn more about themselves and about the others they are with. >> we have touched upon that to a certain extent. it is great to hear some of the reasons why we go on retreats. dr. thomas powers, which was i was amiss to mention, not only was he a jesuit, but of course the first pope elected as a jesuit. pope francis. we commend them in that respect. because he not only of course, has been emphasizing retreats in solitude, but he's also involved in the world and concerned about the poverty of the world and the injustice and inequity. again when we do all those things, disconnect, build community, we want to go back into the world and be able to give what we have experienced. >> absolutely. and i think with retreats, the opportunity to retreat, and then going back into the community, i've b

aaa says people are overdue for a vacation and they're looking to catch up on some r&r. >>> jetblue ise waiting in long lines for food at baseball stadiums. matt piper explains in today's "moneywatch" report. >>> wall street had a mixed finish monday, though tech stocks continue their downward ways. the dow rose 26. the tech-heavy nasdaq dropped 22. the s&p 500 lost 15. >>> jetblue really wants spirit airlines. the company is going straight to shareholders with its offer to buy it in hopes of pushing the board of the florida airline to the negotiating table. jetblue is asking spirit to reject a proposed $2.9 billion acquisition by rival frontier. jetblue saying it offers value and certainty, claiming frontier would offer more risk and more overlap on nonstop routes. jetblue made its first offer to buy spirit for about $3.6 billion last month. >>> mcdonald's is pulling its iconic golden arches out of russia. they say the invasion of ukraine is not consistent with its mcdonald's empty into the soviet union 30 years ago was a symbolic show of the western influence. now it's willing to sel

well, that made today's film session a little more relaxing, even steve kerr looked like he got some r&r. >> we have a meeting space on the other side of chase that we use. and so we take occasional breaks where we walk outside and get a little sunshine. >> we did not have our coach's meeting at pride city. >> okay, fine. eastern conference business. miami and boston, well, derek white is out tonight for the birth of his child. but not everyone in new england is sympathetic. here is nancy in new hampshire. >> have i two children. you know who i want in that room? i want a doctor and i want nurses. that baby's not even going to see who is around him or her. and daddy needs to play for the celtics because we got to win. . >> i love it, nancy. >> wow. we follow that up with golf's pga championship. the men's game second major. oklahoma. tiger woods started on the back nine. his approach shot at 10. check this out. stuck it. birdied two of his first five holes. uh-oh. but the wheels fell off. woods grimaced in pain after the tee shot here. closes his day with back-to-back bogeys. shot a 4 ov

as we see inflation surgeon, gas prices are g, r. r. infants are unable to eat with mothers. not pretty strong. i mean, this happens all over the country and you know, we, coven and everything solid that we still have every day american suffering. and this government does not hear the truth is it's priorities are not with the american people as priorities or with its own agendas, its own desire to remain in power and its own foreign lobbying efforts. i mean, that's what i think so many of us are so confused by as why our, why our administration and our media who seem to work hand in hand on so many things are trying to convince us that things are important when we can barely put food on our tables and feed our children. so that's, that's why we want to know that we want to know that they're going to be some priorities are straight. and we are see now that it's clearly not us jennifer braden, legal anatomy and thanks for your time. we appreciate it. thank you. ah, now the world's richest man a long must have been hit with sexual harassment allegations of the posting tweets cri

image with chip sales and a fall in operating profit it is seeing pressure from a couple of points r r&d is on the rise and phones in china as well for sony it is forecasting improvements let's move on to nintendo. it saw revenue 3.6% in its fiscal year. profit remained around flat. look, the key here is around the hardware sales switch has been on the market for several years. it is managing to shift units. 23.06 million switch consoles sold in the fiscal year. that was down 20% year on year again, it goes back to the supply constraints that nintendo is seeing. it still remains the second highest year of sales for the switch console for nintendo. the company forecasting 21 million units of sales in the fiscal year. down 9%. making up for the shortfall of hardware is the software sales the games. it has 100 million playing users. it has software sales up like pokemon and mario series it has a strong pipeline of games coming over the current year as well similar story between the two companies. it is really not a demand issue. down to supply chain what is interesting to point out is the

it sets them up for a little bit of r&r.> everybody getting their mind right, ready to focus and getting their body back to what they want to. it is nothing like game by them. you have to make sure that you are doing everything that you need to do. >> the minute that the next series finishes, all you can do is start finish -- thinking about your opponent. julian: we will have pregame and postgame shows throughout the series. tipoff is set for 6:00 p.m. voters are headed to the polls. why official kumasi: pushing the limit -- kumasi: pushing his limits. julian: holiday weekend travel chaos. flight cancellations and gas prices. >> especially due to my accident, i cannot give up. a bay -- kumasi: a bay area teenager lost his sight due to gun violence. how he is pushing through. julian: good morning and thank you for being here. drew: expecting a lot of sunshine today and breezy conditions. already seeing winds increase on the coast. as the day goes on, we will find the wind more active. temperatures right now, not too terribly

they're not getting this all the n r a is rich, the n r a is powerful. the n r a is, is connected in the political system in the united states. um, so there is, if you want kind of a swamp, why? because the n r a lobbies and gives out a lot of money for politicians who in return make her untouchable or do not touch gun laws, gun restrictions, et cetera, et cetera. so that is why the n r a is very powerful, deep pockets and they are spending towards the right. politicians will return the favor money and politics or deed of you corresponding stuff in simon's in houston. thanks so much for reporting. well, ukraine is morning that its troops may have to pull out of the eastern don bass region to avoid being surrounded by russian forces pro russia separate as say they have taken the strategic railway hub town of li mine. the russian forces are also advancing from 3 directions on the nearby twin cities of sierra donuts and the si, shanaski, ukrainian controlled cities in the lou han screech, and have come under relentless bombardments, seeking safety under ground. for

we are also some of r&r mall repairs and the uss chance of go which is in dock in japan replacing a shaft out there looking at that and you get about that differently the initial estimate to replace that shaft was in the range of 142150 days. we got that down to 90 days so just by changing our processes and thinking about things different. we are exercising that type of repairs. >> is a true word nuclear aircraft carrier and submarine is battle damaged and the only place for it to be repaired to be a ship yard in the continental united states? >> we could do some of that work. we have docking facilities in the whole range of ship repaired capability. >> ms. up 16 do you think the rather alarming shortcomings revealed in a 2021 gao report on this topic that addressed or are they still pretty glaring? i'm talking about the topic of battle damaged ship repair. like we did with york town. >> senator. he continues to be a challenge to do regularly-scheduled maintenance. completing it in our estimation it would be a significant challenge to repair a battle damaged ship as well. on encouragement

the warriors wrapped up in two fewer games, setting them up for some r&r before the big series starts one is thursday night at the chase center. you can watch it right here on abc 7. >> having two days off, a week until we play, everybody can get their mind right. we can get focus and get our bodies back to where we want to get it to. it is like gamer them, game sheet. make sure you are doing a lot of the stuff you normally do. stay sharp. >> there is really no stress while you're waiting, but the minute that next series finishes, all you can do is start thinking about your opponent. julian: of course, abc 7 is the exclusive home for the nba finals. we will have pregame and post game shows throughout the series. game one is thursday night at the chase center. tipoff is set for 6 p.m. someone in the control room has a question about this celtic screen. [laughter] kumasi: honestly, when i woke up this morning, i was just trying to make it, ok? it was the first thing i saw. julian: that was the one for today. kumasi: listen, don't judge me. julian: you were concerned about the wars becau

inin a butteryry brioche r r. made f fresh, to l leave you. speechchless.a's new chefef's chicken n sandwiches. $1 delivery fee on our app. . >>> say si white surrendered after they crashed the cadillac. she didn't have a mark on her 17-year record until she snuck the capital murder suspect ten days ago claiming she was taking him to a court appointment. >> i had every bit of trust in vicki white. she's an exemplary employee. what in the world prompted her to pull a stunt like this, we don't know. >> officials say vicki white sold her home, put in for retirement and withdrew tens and thousands of dollars from her bank account prior to the get away. >>> the white house is pushing back against vladimir putin's claim that nato and western allies started the fight. he tried to rally people yesterday in the world war ii victory day celebrations addressing the west for his brutal invasion. the white house president biden signed a bill to expedite the flow of military equipment to ukraine. >> the cost of the fight is not too much but aggression is more costly. >>

r&r bowl -- and the honorable mac thornberry. they can talk to us about the appropriations process. i want to start at a very general sense because as we all know ukraine, russia has dominated the national security space for a wild now and probably will continue to do so. despite the fact that the nds does focus on china, i am curious if you could give me your broad take away, each of you, about whether you think, how you think the nds -- should focus more on russia, and how you think the overall security situation in eastern europe should be impacting the nds more, if it should. michelle: thanks for hosting us and putting this great discussion together. i think the strategy got the balance about right. we have a tendency, as do all countries that confront near-term crises, to focus on the five major targets, the immediate challenge. there is a risk we could put all of our bandwidth into today's challenge and underperform in terms of preparing for the future. i think what they have tried to do by saying russia's invasion of ukraine is the acute challenge, we have to focus on helping ukraine beat back the aggression to make sure we are as strong as possible in deterring any further aggression against nato, but we have to keep a good portion of our bandwidth focused on preparing for that more significant threat from a rising china in the longer term. if you are the defense department of a global power in a country with global interests, you have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. we have to be able to do the near-term crisis management piece and the long-term preparation. that is easier said than done, and i really like dr. hicks'framework of thinking in three setups. i agree the middle one is the hardest to get right, but i personally believe that even on the china side, deterring china against taiwan there is a near-term deterrence challenge we need to be focusing even more of our attention on. how do we take the capabilities we have, combined them into ways with new operational concepts to meaningfully strengthen deterrence in the next five to seven years vis-a-vis taiwan, given all of the actions and the rhetoric coming out of china under president xi. >> you think the u.s. in the world has five to seven years? michelle: right now president xi is focused on dealing with the covid crisis that is not getting better. his economy is suffering and slow growth is always very frightening for the chinese communist party in terms of maintaining their order and control. he has the 20th party congress coming up where he will want to focus on stability and consolidating his power. i also think he wants to pursue a political and economic coercion strategy vis-a-vis taiwan. the use of force is a last resort. nor do i think his military force is ready for that. if after five years of trying the star trek absorption into the borg strategy does not work, we could be facing a situation where he says this is a legacy issue, i want to take care of this on my watch, i'm going to reach for use of force because it will only get harder for me in the future as the u.s. fields more and more capability. i think the timeframe could be sooner or later, but we have to be focused on that, not just china as a long-term challenge but china in the midterm as well. >> that exact argument you just made about a legacy issue in dealing with it right now, there a lot of people who think that is why that amir boudin has gone into you great -- that is why vladimir putin has gone into ukraine right now. congressman lauria, you look at this as someone who is sitting through congress right now. i wonder what your overall perspective is on this, whether it is enough focus in the current budget on russia and ukraine, russia specifically, given the focused on china. rep. lauria: a lot of things on michelle said. we have to be laser focused on china and their aggression in taiwan and the timeframe between now and 2027. i think there are significant gaps in this year's budget to adequately address that. i look at it and think about where are we different now than we were a few months ago before the february invasion? this is an opportunity. we had a very different impression of russia and russia's conventional military capabilities prior to the current situation with the recent invasion of ukraine. on top of that we have a host of nato and soon nato allies stepping up. what the last administration was trying to do was get nato to contribute more and we have been very surprised by germany and others. so we have an opportunity if we want to leverage our allies and partners and europeans are stepping up to find more and we have significant forces there, i do not think is a question of allocating more resources to europe, because we have more players also willing to do more. if anything if we want to leverage the allies and partners concept, we have the opportunity to allow our partners in europe to take more of the burden and for us to provide more of our resources to the very urgent situation in this timeframe between now and 2027 with regards to china and taiwan. courtney: do you have any concerns, some of your colleagues have talked about concerns for readiness? the u.s. has provided one third of the javelins they had in the arsenal to ukraine. looking at that, do you think there's enough built in to maintain the u.s. readiness, or are you will concerned about stockpiles getting low? rep. luria: is something we will look at closely as we continue to transfer material equipment that we have adequate replenishment. if we can get more into the navy , where i focus a lot of my attention, i have significant concerns with proposed decommissioning of 24 ships, only building eight. the long-term capacity gaps that creates, it came up in an earlier conversation about the number of missiles. in the navy you might quantify that. if you look at the next seven-year period, we will learn up to 1600 through the decommissioning of the remaining 22 cruisers and the slow procurement of new platforms. you also talked earlier about the industrial base. there is capacity there. why are wynne lee building two destroyers. we can build -- why are we only building two destroyers? i think there is a host of things, it is not only the platforms, it is the munitions and all of that combined together. we need to be laser focused on what is needed for the deterrent. there is a lot of talk about needing to be able to deter in the near term but i do not think we are building a force to do that. it is clear you cannot build an entire new force in the five-year period. we have to fight with what we have today. we are divesting of that. rather than investing in the readiness, we are just saying divest to invest. it is obsolete, we need to move on to new concepts that do not equal any weapon systems that exist. ai, quantum computing, this is part of the mix in the future. we have to focus on the near-term, and we look at the budget, myself and many sides of the aisle, this is just a vesting too much. courtney: you mentioned deterrence. rep. luria: my feeling about the national defense strategy versus the previous administration is i think what we need is a deterrence by denial. you have to have the force and the presence to do that. i feel that shifting away from integrated deterrence, which is a deterrence by punishment. if you do not have the forces ready, if you do not have the authorities in place, that will be another discussion on the policies of strategic ambiguity and whether we need to change our posture relative to that, i do not feel like the shift to integrated deterrence is creating a force that can actually accomplish a deterrence by denial strategy in order to prevent the fait accompli. courtney: now that you're looking at this from a step back and hopefully you have more time now that you are not on the armed forces committee. what you think, specifically whether the defense budget and national defense strategy has the right mix on what it is specific to russia and china and also these other factors, north korea, iran. is there anything you're looking at right now with the situation with russia, do you worry about the readiness of u.s. military and how the money is being appropriated in this budget? max: i am struck by how we are having some of the same debates we've been having for a while. when president obama wanted to pivot to asia, the concern was you are turning away from something, in that case middle east terrorism was our primary concern, to focus on this one thing. united states does not have the luxury of focusing in one area or on one adversary and vladimir putin's invasion of ukraine is a slap in the face reminder that there are other threats to the world that we have to pay attention to. i am also struck by a lot of continuity in this national defense strategy that secretary hicks was talking about from the last one. it is words on the paper. the question is what change are you going to make that would make that become a reality? that is where you do get into a 4% increase that does not keep up with inflation is not enough to deal with, to implement that strategy given the world we all see clearly now. then you start getting tensions, that is where readiness becomes often the easiest and quickest thing to. we saw that before in the later stages of the obama administration where we had accident rates going up and we were at one point in the trump administration, north korea poses a threat and we have to move precision munitions from the middle east to the pay com area and in the middle east commanders start worrying they are short. i agree is not all about top line in numbers, but it does begin the conversation of what capability you have, how much in that budget. frankly i was encouraged to hear her say we will take this plan, we will add whatever inflation is, which is going to be pretty high, and then not lose capability like these ships they want to get rid of prematurely come and build from there. that is probably an approach that does begin to implement the words on this paper. courtney: what other capability gaps that you can point to, specifically with the threat to china that have you concerned right now? michelle: maybe to provoke a little debate, i have a slightly different view. i think that the u.s. does have the objective of being able to deny chinese aggression success against taiwan. we have to be careful of the metrics. it is not necessarily numbers of traditional platforms. this is going to be a very different environment where we have huge geographic advantage. they will try to create a fait a ccompli very quickly before u.s. forces can mass in the theater. it will be a highly contested environment where ships and planes that go in early will be very vulnerable. deterrence by denial may require some different operations. for example, my favorite example came out of the rand study which is taking long range anti-ship missiles and putting them on standoff air force platforms that can target -- can i finish? i am just saying, we have to have an operational concept in mind before we start making judgments about do we have enough destroyers, do we not have enough destroyers? the other thing is what i do think across the board we have munition shortfalls. as we are seeing in terms of ukraine situation in our own arsenal, but this is constantly a top concern of the commander. services constantly trade-off munitions to pay for shiny objects and i think we have to focus. the last comment for security systems. the big lesson from ukraine is that after crimea, the u.s., the canadians, the u.k., other nato members spent time training and working with ukrainians to make them more of a porcupine. let's become very indigestible to the russian bear. not my phrase, tony thomas used to use this. we did similar work in the baltics. the same approach needs to happen in taiwan. how do you give them asymmetric capabilities to create costs to slow things down to buy time for the national community to support. rep. luria: i think you had a perfect scene setter and i think that is an investment we should definitely make. the reason i jumped in as i asked the air force at our hearing how many is in the budget. it was not a piece of data at their fingertips. it was not high on the radar for the air force as an investment for their contribution. i asked her the same question about offensive minded laying. a huge asset to help create this porcupine, both for us to have the capabilities as well as for taiwan to invest in the capabilities for their own defense. i think you also set the scene perfectly about the defense standoff ranges. we have not invested insufficient anti-surface capability. we are still relying on harpoons. it was developed in the 1970's. there been improvements in that missile and now we have mabel strike missiles and other capabilities. we are at a disadvantage which presents us -- which prevents us from being within the chinese missile range in certain phrases of a conflict. i also think there are other capabilities we do not think about. the navy is bad at building small. the chinese have very small, very heavily armed vessels that have a higher firepower with longer-range anti-surface missiles. i think we need to think about a mix, both for dispersion, i think the marine corps plans to develop their concepts, but also i do not like the budgets we get follow the words that we hear. the warfare vessel that will carry the marine core surface missiles, navy strike missiles, it is part of that context. it is delayed again two more years. if we are looking at the near-term, this is a relatively inexpensive investment. why aren't we making it a priority? why is it pushed two years down the road? i think the anti-surface capability is a big concern i have. courtney: is that something you've communicated to the military? rep. luria: i think is a combination, we can get started, we have capability and we can invest in more of it. i think it could be used more in their operational plans in how they disperse. we cannot continue to wait for the perfect solution. going back to the platforms, you have to have the platforms to deliver. divest to invest, capabilities we may be able to develop in 20 years. we do not have the luxury of waiting for them. we have to be creative with the platforms we have. there are potential capabilities for transferring eps to carry launchers for smaller craft. in this budget they want to decommission nine lcs. the capabilities it does have is the surface warfare module. even if it is a question of moving forces around because the lcs has a lower capability, that could free up destroyers to reposition and be in areas where they are more necessary to the fight. we have to get to what you wrote. in 72 hours we need to be able to target all of their anti-service capabilities. in my mind that is the ball for deterrence. i do not know if you've shifted from that -- in my mind that is the goal for deterrence. i do not know if you have shifted from that position. michelle: nope. courtney: secretary hicks says you been trading the ukrainians, providing all these weapons. did deterrence work? is there some way deterrence -- is there some way the u.s. can shift deterrence to maybe deter china from an invasion of taiwan? mac: it is always possible for bad guys to do bad things. you want to discourage it. you will not always be successful, which is why you need a military to win a conflict in case deterrence should fail. that is basics. you can also argue that perhaps vladimir putin was looking not only of how many ships and tanks and planes we had, he is looking at our divisions domestically and a whole variety of factors and thought this is the time when he could get away with it. remember deterrence is in the mind of the adversary and it has to be credible, not only what you have, but it could be used. to go back to my theme for just a second, it may be simplistic to look at topline defense budgets, but it is also a clear signal to vladimir putin and president xi of our national commitment to develop the capabilities we are talking about to defend ourselves. i was struck by how many times secretary hicks mentioned our nuclear modernization. it was not that long ago that it was do we really need a triad, can we get by with two? i think ukraine ends that debate. the harder question when it comes to deterrence is now we not only have russia, but we have china that has -- that is dramatically increasing their nuclear capability. is our capability credible in that three-way situation, or not? my personal opinion is i do not think we have thought enough about that. two more points. when it comes to us and china, conventional is important. it is also some of these newer capabilities, some of which we are behind in. hypersonic's, anti-satellite weapons. they have more data than anyone for ai. getting those nontraditional defense suppliers on the playing field is essential. to go back to michelle's point, developing this capability or that capability does not count for much unless you have the operational concepts to use them. that was a key finding of the strategy commission in 2018 and it is still an area where i am not sure we are quite up to snuff. we will develop hypersonic's, but what will we do with it? how will you use it? courtney: there's the operational concepts but there is the authority -- rep. luria: there's the operational concepts but there is the authority. i think we need to have a debate in congress about authority. if you have amassing of forces on the coast of china and indications they will cross the strait. we can want to be a deterrent by denial and want to intervene, but what authority exists to do that? we cannot just introduce forces where hostilities are likely without coming to congress. we are not clear. our strategic ambiguity is ambiguous. it is time to have a debate about strategic ambiguity. my personal opinion is we should have strategic clarity and say we will come to the defense of taiwan in order to maintain the status quo in that last part is important. the debates are not being had in congress because the president will need position time. if you're going to wait to come to congress while they go 140 nautical miles, those things do not happen that quickly. courtney: are you saying you think there should be an naumf? rep. luria: if we have strategic clarity, everything would fall in behind that because there would be no questions that would be our national policy that we would come to the defense of taiwan. if we wait to have that debate until there are forces moving, i think that delay will lead to a fait accompli. courtney: the underlying idea of strategic ambiguity is supposed to be idea that the u.s. would defend taiwan. that is an assumption of it. but it also upends up the issue of strategic simultaneity. you said you think there five to seven years before china acts on taiwan in a military perspective. if they were to speed that up, where the u.s. is with this huge investment in ukraine, helping out in the war against russia, do you think china -- if china were to act on taiwan tomorrow, with usb able to come to the defense of taiwan come is the u.s. ready for that right now? rep. luria: not the way we need to be. i think the u.s. would come to taiwan's defense if the aggression were unprovoked. all of the wargaming we read about suggests if we just play with what we have, if we confront this with what we have, the results are suboptimal. there is a lot more risk than we should be accepting in that scenario. i think there's a lot that needs to be done. i do not want to say we cannot deter, but it would be more by cost than by denial. we want to get to the point we can deny their success. part of this equation of rapidly fielding new capabilities is building on what the secretary did when she was undersecretary of acquisition, which is creating a speedway or a highway for largely commercial technologies to be more rapidly integrated into the force. there are ai tools today that can give us a huge decision advantage. they need to be up and down the entire chain of command. we should be leveraging those because if you have more accurate and faster decision than your adversary that will be a huge advantage. there are things today we can do to build our resilience on the cyber side and the space side we should be investing in, largely commercial. it does not need a new military requirement. it is not need to go through the 5000 acquisition process. we need to create that fast track and train acquisition professionals to be special ops, acquirers of commercial technologies which we have not done at scale yet. this is an unmanned system. whether uav, this is a critical part of regaining capacity in a theater that is very far away from us and in the backyard of a potential adversary. there is a lot in that regard we can do as well that is a key element of how we are trying to bolster deterrence. courtney: do you think that right now the pentagon is being aggressive enough? michelle: i think they are starting to lean forward on this. i would like to see them lean forward even more. one of the challenges is we need to bring along congress, particular appropriators, who tend to be very conservative about how they spend taxpayer dollars. we are in a catch 22 were something like the navy will say we would like to buy a few unmanned surface vehicles so we can play around with them, experiment, develop a new operational concept come and congress comes back and says no, you do not know what you want to do with these things, so why would you let -- why would we let you buy, you have one common the navy says i need more than one to experiment. you're in this catch 22 because of risk aversion. this is the time where we have to lean forward to allow experimentation on a more rapid basis and except a little bit of risk that we might have some failures in the development and concept process that you learn from and then get to a better answer. courtney: i am curious what you think about that as someone who has the purse strings? rep. luria: authorizer's and appropriators. i was certainly on the armed services committee. we were all in to adding the $24 billion additionally last year and we did it more thoughtfully on the house. -- on the house side than the senate side. we focused on what are the things that are needed for the pacific. the navy only requested one destroyer. you talk about the standard industrial base, you have to build at least two destroyers because you have two shipyards. we preserve two cruisers. we were focused on the china scenario. i think there have been questions about, we want to bring before you this idea of an unmanned surface vessel. what are you going to put into it, what are you going to use it for? we can show you other platforms you can put 64 cells on and you can use the concept and it does not have to be unmanned, that can be done at a low cost. you could have eight epfs -- the cost is the same of 1 -- think about the amount of firepower you get out of that. there is a balance between their being to explain what they want the platform for and there is a history. there is a history of failed shipbuilding programs we have lived through. we are getting there, but it is taking much longer than we anticipated. i think there is the history of it and the lack of clarity of where you going to do with this. for some people who have operated ships on the technical engineering side, what is doubtful you can have it i'm in surface vessel that can operate for that time -- one is doubtful you can have a surface vessel that can operate for that period of time. courtney: one thing we have not touched on at all is the threat from north korea and iran. north korea just launched a ballistic missile. i was struck earlier this meet that the japanese defense minister talked about the threat from north korea as being imminent, which is not a word we hear often in north korea right now. i'm curious, do you think the way the nds is structured, it has north korea and iran as a secondary threat. you think that is appropriate or do we need to be more focused on the threat from north korea? and you think the budget reflects enough of the developments for the threat that is posed from north korea. mac: short answer on that is no. again, what you see, it a dynamic situation. if north korea thinks we are distracted by ukraine, then the logical thing is this is the chance we can get away with something we might not have been able to get away with before or at lesser cost. then iran is the same. they are pulling out of the middle east. now this is the time to push our allies in yemen to do more against saudi arabia and others there. you will have aggressors always looking to take advantage of opportunities. that is what you are seeing now. what you do about it? as elaine said, you have to keep your eye on the main thing. for us, the most consequential threat is china. you also have to have the capability to deter other kinds of aggression, whether it be in europe, asia, or the middle east. that does get back to does a 4% increase that does not keep up with inflation really meet that standard when it comes to implementing? i do not think it does. if i can chime in for a second on what they were saying, i do think there has to be a partnership between the administration and congress, and there are cultural issues in both the pentagon and congress on being able to move at the speed that events require. if north korea decides they will do something, we have to be able to move appropriately at that speed, and a budget process that takes two years to get the money appropriated, that is before you ever start building something, it does not cut it. you cannot treat everything the same. carriers and big expensive things are one thing, but a pool of money for ai applications, what the ai commission recommended congress to, more of a portfolio approach for these fast-moving technologies does help. when it comes to some of these threats, especially from china come into a lesser extent north korea and iran and russia, but with some of these threats, that flexibility of funding would help augment what congress and secretary lord have done as far as the acquisition authorities. they are in place, but you have to do with the culture and the money to get something out of it. courtney: is there anything else other than ai? is there a pull of funding you think could be applied? rep. luria: i think shipping. there been pilot programs on that but there been huge delays with cr's. another thing about resources and how they are allocated. you authorize the strategic deterrence fund, and you talk about -- the nuclear deterrent remains the cornerstone of our national defense, we have to keep the economy on track. big able to relieve some of that pressure from the navy shipbuilding budget, i think the authorizer's are always willing to do it but appropriators have never appropriated any funds. michelle: ai is important, absolutely. a broader category of bridge funding for innovation adoption. right now you have many new innovative technologies being demonstrated or piloted. you go to softworks and here are the best in class. you wait 18 to 24 months we will get you in the program. for some companies that is a death sentence. when you do have a pool of money that says based on the successful prototype we will continue to develop that capability and get it ready for full-scale production when you can get the program funds there. those bridging funds are key for a range of ready and emerging technologies. one more thing. every time we have a crisis, we make progress in making the system be more responsive and rapid. when the crisis is over we revert back to being slow and bureaucratic. there have been amazing innovations in the declassification use and sharing of intelligence in this crisis we should not lose going forward. there been huge innovations in getting things released and moved into the hands of our allies and ukraine that we should not lose going forward. i think part of what we need to do is try to hold on to some of those innovations and some of that progress when the crisis is over. courtney: i want to open it up to the audience in just a moment. congresswoman, i want to ask you one thing as a navy veteran. secretary hicks spoke about investing in people. i wonder if you think the current budget does enough of that? rep. luria: this is a personal thing back home. we have had tragic losses on the george washington recently, three suicides in rapid succession. something similar happened on the george h. w. bush. there is always talk about investing in the number of people and strength has to match the platforms, and i think the navy's budget this year they are roughly equal the requirement. investing in people, i think the navy, through this process of evaluating what happened on the george washington and beyond in the ship repair and availability and the stress on junior sailors , that highlights some investments we need to make in people and quality-of-life and people as well come in how we assign our most junior sailors. it is multifaceted. not just for people but for policies. i think the navy will come out with recommendations that will guide us. from my own observations visiting a ship and personal experience, i can say there are investments that are necessary to ensure the future help of our force. courtney: are there any recommendations the navy will make? rep. luria: i cannot speak for the navy, but at newport news there is a carrier for fueling ongoing. we have eight more carriers three fuel that will built or going to be built. i think we need to invest in things that do not sound as sexy as new missile systems, but we have to have the sailors to operate the equipment. things like barracks and single sailor housing. that can friction point where people are taking two to does going to have additional hours each way to get to work. we have to look at those. i think our community, with partnerships as well between federal, state and local. having the shipbuilder is something that drives the economy. i think we need to look at pairing across all levels of government to make sure we can invest. michelle: if i could add a point on talent management. i think all the services arena 20 century talent management approach and could certainly get even more out of the incredible talent. i will give you one example. the vast majority of officers who come out of the academy or rotc programs are stem graduates. those are the folks the scholarships go to, by and large . once you are in, you become an officer of the line, you will be placed wherever. few people use their engineering backgrounds. there is so much talent in the force that we are not actually leveraging because we have not created career paths that promotes, you cannot make general officer or flag officer as a technologist. it is very difficult. better investing in developing, managing, placing, allocating the talent we have is part of the solution as well as attracting additional quality talent from outside. rep. luria: building on top of that, i think in the process of design, procurement, acquisition, we have lost that expertise. the engineering level expertise within the military in uniform. breed engineers, ocean engineers, naval engineers, all of that capacity to provide that oversight so we do not -- i feel like there's not enough oversight in the services over those programs that leads us down some of the paths that are not successful. i think a combination of that with the needs of the services themselves to use that talent to a better effect is important. courtney: it is interesting to have that conversation when we are also hearing more about recruiting issues in the army. mac: recruiting and retention has been changing over time. covid accelerated some of those changes. one of the factors i think we are still playing catch up on is the family dynamics to retain you have to consider the whole family needs. i think we are still not doing that. rep. luria: carter made a priority when he was secretary of defense that did not catch on. michelle: this is a place where there been critics saying the department thinks too much about diversity and inclusion. diversity inclusion dramatically increases your recruitment for. why should we be increasing our recruitment on half of the population? we need to focus on all of the united states and get the best and brightest from every background. every race, creed, and color, to bring those people into serve our country. if you open that aperture you are dramatically improving your talent for and your chances of recruiting the best and brightest. it is not a side issue. it is core to dealing with the recruiting retention and performance issues the department struggles with. courtney: i want to take a few questions from the audience. yes? >> thank you. i work at the center for east asian studies at john hopkins science. thank you for the great conversation. i want to take it back to taiwan. there is an interesting poll that came out in march that found more believe japan would come to the defense of taiwan than the united states would come to the defense of taiwan. shockingly, still this poll was conducted only a few weeks after the president sent a bipartisan delegation to visit taiwan, which one of our distinguished panelists was a part of. i wanted to ask all of the panelists if the taiwanese believe japan is more likely to come to the defense of taiwan, should we assume that same thought is being held by dcp leadership, and does this failure represent an inability to communicate willingness or inability to demonstrate we have the capability to come to taiwan's defense. how do we rectify whether it is either or or a combination of both? thank you. rep. luria: strategic ambiguity does create ambiguity, as the title would suggest. however, there are challenges associated with abandoning that policy, perfectly in terms of creating a provocation that would get china to act sooner, but also diminishing the faith other allies and partners in the region can use to be helpful to taiwan without having to be forced to choose sides. that said, i think we could do a better job of clarifying our commitment and our resolve, both our willingness to defend taiwan under certain circumstances, meaning they are not declaring independence and creating the crisis themselves. we can stretch the boundaries of ambiguity by being clear in our work. most importantly, we can be clear in our actions in terms of the extent to which we are helping them with the self-defense, the extent to which we are enforcing international law in and around the straight, the extent to which we are investing in the right capabilities and showing up again and again diplomatically. i think the biggest problem we have with deterrence is china has created this narrative of u.s. inevitable decline and they have drug their own kool-aid -- they have druink their own kool-aid. we have to through our actions and words demonstrate that is a miscalculation. i think there is a cautionary tale. if putin does not succeed in ukraine there is a cautionary tale for president xi. putin underestimated ukrainians and nato and the u.s. xi needs to pause. he is a very serious risk of underestimating the u.s. and international community and how we would respond to unprovoked aggression against taiwan. mac: can i add a couple of things? number one, be careful what you say, and follow-up and do what you say. that adds credibility. we are still in a rebuilding credibility mode around the world right now. i'm not surprised by those numbers, partly because the shift that is happening with japan is a -- is pretty significant. i am still blown away by germany and the european changes and how encouraging that is. we should not take lightly the shift that is also occurring in japan. we have allies that are taking significant steps to step up and be a more significant contributor to pushing back against aggression. >>>> thank you the foundation. great to see each of you again. roger asked some great questions of the secretary on how we can better deter aggression against our allies and partners. secretary fournay, you mentioned security assistance. it seems to me one of the key lessons from what we have seen in ukraine is that it is much easier to arm partners before the invasion that after, and about provoking authoritarian bowlers -- authoritarian in democracies before the invasion starts. -glad to see discussions on taiwan. i and mindful there is a $14 billion backlog in arms sales to taiwan. i am mindful the ethics team will not get there for a long time. the harpoon missiles that will make them the porcupine you think they should be may not arrive until after the window admiral davidson talked about. i am wondering and welcome comments from all of you. maybe there's legislation to focus on how we can deliver arms quicker after the announcement. things like are the countries at the top of the queue, what can we provide in terms of interim capabilities while they are waiting for that. what can we do in advance of delivery and training. there are prohibitions on training with taiwan that are self-imposed. what can we do to expedite full operational capability when they finally get those weapons. interested in thoughts on those comments. >> i am very interested in the training piece. there is talk about how the u.s. training the ukrainians made a big difference. >> the sms system is perennially slow. that is still true. i think that i would like to see more fast-track established, not just from when the crisis happens but building up deterrent capabilities of critical partners and allies. we went to accelerate the porcupine process. i would love to see that happen. maybe it has to be a presidential level designation, etc. i went through this in several cases in the obama administration where we had to bump people in the queue for strategic priorities. i think that is essential. there is an interagency task force specifically focused on the taiwan problem and accelerate these. some are affected by industrial base challenges. others are placed in the queue. there's an effort to try to do exactly what you are saying with regard to taiwan. the other thing holding us up with technology. i have long advocated an approach for rather than going through the concepts and at the very end asked the question, can we release this technology? where we are trying to build deterrent capabilities across a number of partners, why do we do that upfront? for the sake of building deterrents in europe we will release this technology to the following allies and partners. it is frontloaded as a strategic policy decision had not something that holds of the train at the very end case-by-case by case. there are reforms that that can improve the performance of the process. >> i would in addition to your question, the partner you addressed training ahead of time. in a broad sense training and operability and operational plans with taiwan is an area that requires focusing more attention. i think they can be injunction -- conjunction with new systems. the ball drops tomorrow, we have not trained with the taiwanese. it is not like other areas and conflicts we have been prepared for over time. we can drop in with nato allies, the japanese with south korea the common language, the ability to talk to each other. investment in time and focus on those issues. mac: i would add we still do not move at the speed the world moves when it comes to security assistance. back to the point michelle made, we have a crisis. we will do a task force for that crisis. what about the rest of the places we want to make for difficult for aggressors? it needs to be a broader change. secondly, we have amazing new tools now for training and simulation that are incredibly realistic and don't require having all the ships burning diesel or whatever. we need to take advantage of those. our partners around the world can benefit from the training and simulate an capabilities and elevate. >> we have time for one more. >> two fax have changed on the ground in washington. how does that change the way you think about how we will fund national defense? >> i guess i can jump in on that. earmarks have returned. there is a limited about the -- they cost any -- there are a limited amount. hasn't had any effect on the defense spending or how we go about that. >> on the budget control, thank god it is gone. now we can look at how dangerous the world is, what our needs are and have a budget that matches. we have the opportunity now. we had to use workarounds with funding. now you can be more transparent. i think probably that is a good thing. >> the real problem now is continuing resolutions forever, because innovation and new starts are key to getting us the capability we need for the future. we heard secretary hicks talked about the department able to send clear and consistent signals to the market, to industry on where to invest, put your r&d, all of that. continuing resolutions undermine that. he creates unpredictability. investors and companies likely can't put the extra money into something that might be true in five to 10 years because it is too much uncertainty. that is the next thing we have to go after. extremely difficult in the polarized political environment we are in but it has real implications. >> and the signals don't just go to the market. they go to couldn't -- putin and xi so it is a crucial thing for us to do. >> when you were chair, we passed it through committee unanimously, right? >> thank you to the reagan institute and a wonderful panelists. thank you to all of you. 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r r clearlylyit's a federal crime. it's also,ls by the way, the roc to chaos and collapse. you can't you can't allow angry mobs to make your country's laws. that's what we've banned y lynching. but jen psaki did not have a problem with this. this. people are understandably upset with sam alito's views. sheere with sam said. v soie you shouldn't be surprised. they want to express that concern in person by screaming at sam alito and his family. quote, i don't have an official u.s. government position on where people should protest jen psaki or those are the rules. now how would you feel if angryp protesters showed up outside, say michelle obama's houseed? a of course they'd be thrown into thumbscrews within minutes and charged with racism wou andu would applaud as they languished in jail. but conservative supreme court justices know that's a different story because conservative supreme court justices deserve it.es that'ser john saki's position.tr but it is not. in fact, since we've speaking of this topic, the official positionio of the u.s. governmet ,no, according to 18 u.s. code 15 07, the official position of the u.s. government is you're not allowed to intimidate judges, period, quote whoever with the intent of interfering with obstructing or impeding the administration of justicetig with the intent ofin influencin any judge, jury witness orwi court officer, the discharge of his duty pickets or parades in or near a building housings court of the united states or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge or witness or court officer or with such intent as any sound truck or similar device or resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence shall be fined orbe imprisoned. so it's very clearly a crime. jen psaki either didn't know this or far more likely didn't care because as far as the biden administration is concerned, justice alito is responsible for the threats against his family. if you h ought to be targeted d by a mobon that don't write opinions the mob doesn't like dumbo. you did this to yourself. it's your fault we're hurting you. that that's always the position of passive aggressive people p in the position of the passive aggressive party . so we recognized it immediately because we watch this stufffve r a living and then we saw this and it made us think this ran on cnn this morning. now for days we have assumed based on quite a bit of evidence that the main threaten supreme court justices right now into our justice system c itself comes from groups of activists, liberals who are enraged by the idea that roe v wade might be repealed. these are the people who are spray painting churches and putting sam alito's home address on the internet there the mob and they're angry and we know why they're angry. the whole thing made sense to. us . but according to cnn, that's not what's happening. in fact, it's the opposite of what's happening. the real threat cnn informed us this morning comes not from people who are angry about sam alito's opinion but from people who are happy about it. so the ones who are celebrating with sam alito wrote arer the ones who are the real danger to the supreme court. watchme this morning. >> law enforcement officials are preparing for potential violence in the capi

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are you sure of that ? you are playing one on o i'm playing one on television tonight . i'm not playing that role and i'm at leaston coming to the conclusion that men don't have babies and they can have a abortions. you don't havee tooyo be a doctor . all you've got to be is just a human being and live a little bit of life and you know that there are two genders.s. this nonsenses. about you can just be whatever you want to be . i thought that when i wasye five years old and would get a yardstick and trash can live in place, sir lancelot. but i outgrew it and i certainly didn't take it into my political life somehowe believe that that's how we ought to live our lives around the country. really >> you know, i'm really lookingg forward to your book and ari, we've had a couple of conversations about it and when elon brands the democrats the party of division and hatere ,it'sal really accurate. and i played all of these tapes . i played them repeatedly. i won't do it now. but all the evidence is there for people to see and you cover a lot of this in the book isll especiallyy as it relates to the media. well, what's really happening in elon musk is on tolo it as te democratic party has no longer the liberal aclu principle free speechch clash ideologicallyly with your opponents party . it has really become a suppressive party that believes that the other side is not entitled to its opinion. and if youou espouse you should be shut down just like on a college campus and then you can have these ridiculous woke views just like we heard about men areik being are pregnant. i just don't know where to go with any of this . and so what are your plans either? i found you a doctor playing author, playing author there. the book will be out in july but the most profound thing he says, john, is that i'vete never votedd republican before but i will this november. i can't help but wonder how many fellow americans arei in the same boat. i just think there's so many people hispanic americans, african-americans who say i've traditionally been democrat but i can't put up with this any longer at elon musk has got his finger finger on it's the failure>> i. o it's the needless suffering of americans. you know, we have more gas, more more oil available to us our own oil. we don't need to get from venezuela or iran or opec. we can get some from canada pretty cheap, but we can have our own resources and all ofll this is preventable and all of it's very fixable if we have the right leadership. and that's the sad part t to me. but anyway, ari, congrats on the book, governor . always good to a see you. thank you . allgh right. straight ahead tonight , major developments in a love this in the dorm probe as michael sussmann trialel began this wee. oh , and when we hear about the jury makeup and the jury pool that is raising eyebrows, the fix may actually already be in the end mark meadows and devon doonas. they're next door at you could only one thing the rest of your life would be easy, but pretty sure that's not one thing. barbecue buffet, a buffet, the complete opposite of what barbecue is rocks and barbecue chicken andes roll. >> do you struggle to fall asleep and stay asleep?tr tunelessly formula combines five key nutrients that can help you fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer and wake up refreshed. the brand i trust is qunol so your home is expensive and stressful so we set out to create a better home style experience with a network of the most successful real states in america. it'll sell your home for as little as a two percent commission. the icing on the cake with the idealism was that we saved twelve thousand dollars in commissions. we would definitely use our going to guide. the whole process was so positive for excellent, excellent service getting right to the point hiring an ideal agent . i wish we would have done that sooner and we would have saved six months of time and mortgage payments that would have probably never happened. we would have just gone with the first they were so stress free. the whole process was amazing and i would definitely recommend that . we certainly recommend that ideally, you know, to overcome over friends. it's just a great experience. we are not discount brokers. these are topical agents that'll get you the best results. sometimes you might not feel ready for the moment with your son . we got this . you can take care of erectile dysfunction discreetly so that you're ready. roman ready? 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yeah, i think probablyro the biggest thing sean is is when you look at a jury pool, you're going to want to make sure that you don't get donors to any political party. s i mean, whether it's donaldmp trump or hillary clinton in thee reports i read earlier todaywe where we're very troubling because as youre look at that , you want someone regardless of how they might have voted rto be impartial juror.ial and here's what we do juror, iss the allegations against this particular attorney i believe are the tip of the iceberg. you've got devin got nunez on tonight. you had jim jordan and others r that were really at the tipea of the spear. you didf cover this for three years. and here's what we also know. it shouldn't just stop with the allegations and justice for attorneys if indeed j mr. sussmann is guilty. we also know that bruce and nellie were met with, withne differentll individuals and that connection between fusion gps, christopher steele, the fake dossier and others very high up at doj and fbi. it's very troubling how could all of this be going on ? s and somehow they missed the memo that they were working for the clinton campaign. it's just beyond belief. you know, i look at this stuff and the prosecution laying out the case that clinton's lawyer used the fbi to createob this october surprise against trump. they started with witnesses marc elias and fbi g

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r and r t. my name's uni. ukrainian fighters who recently surrendered out via zone style plants will stand trial for the crimes. they're accused of going back multiple years. that's according to the leader. that the net republic, the group includes members of the neo nazi as off battalion. now the territory of the plants is fully under the control right now. join russian on done yet, forces who are carrying i currently demining operation across marty. you pull the historic steel factory is deem beyond ripper. but the city and other facilities are to be restored with the help of st. petersburg as the 2 were declared sister cities . meanwhile, rti got the chance to exclusively film the sprawling industrial zone from the air and explore it steps on the surface. you can very clearly see how much damage the rushing artillery, the russian air force mortars. how much damage the cost to this place. i mean, look at it. it is utterly devastated, and you can see where the bombs fell. the roof is caved into this building into this absolutely, truly massive warehouse over there to and also you can also get a glimpse into how much the as of neo nazi fighters and the ukranian forces, how much they had in between them and the falling bombs, not just not just concrete, but here, hard steel, all of this kept them really, really safe. and now i'm going to give you one of the most vivid examples as to why the as of style fighters could have sheltered in full safety. incomplete safety for however long they wanted. this is a crater left by a truly massive bomb, likely dropped off a jet. and you can see how much damage it made compared to me. it's massive. it's absolutely colossal. but have a look at the concrete there. this is just the upper layer of all the dungeons that, towering down there under ground. so the, it managed to destroy the concrete plate, the very top one. but there are several more each and single floor each. each single floor there is separated and protected by plates exactly like this. imagine how many bombs have to be dropped in one particular spot in a one concrete spot which is already impossible to get to the as of style neo nazis and regular soldiers. which who are hiding and living on the very lower level, the catacombs underneath the as of sal steelworks can be explored endlessly. this maze of tunnels doesn't stop prizing it from one tunnel. you go straight into another than this, this array of well ladders and staircases. and you have no idea what's right around the corner. this used to be the headquarters of one of the many units that used to be stationed here, that used to shelter here underneath this plant. the still a heavy stench of ash in the air because before leaving, they burned this place. they raised it to the ground. not only did they burn the place, but they also had to drop some weapons. and basically they made them useless. like over here you can see rifles, you can see shane guns, they did their best so that nothing falls in the hands of the nets, people's republic militia. but right now scouting this place. they have already. well, got some trophies. we had to climb about 2 stories up to get to this massive place and get what we're still under the surface. we're still under ground. so you can imagine how deep the tunnels go here and they really could have stayed there. and i mean, even bombs dropped from jets, can't get them here. i mean, look at all the concrete. so it is one of the safest places in the world from the catacombs. we finally see the light of day. we had to get some 5 stories up just to get here to the ground level craters, the size of a truck and burned down military vehicles. as of style is the epitome of utter obliteration. and a metaphor to the fate of every one who was sheltering underneath the places annihilated by the russian jets and artillery of the de nets people's republic. ah, okay. to another. a headline. stories today. the governing bodies of men's and women's tennis have removed ranking point set wimbleton penalizing the sports oldest grand slam tournament after its decision to ban russian and beller, russian clears from this years event. the decision by wimbledon to ban russian and bella ruffian, players from competing in the u. k. this summer undermines the principal and the integrity of the g. p ranking system. it is with great regret and reluctance that we see no option but to remove atp ranking points from wimbledon for 20. 22. let's go more in this with ortiz don quarter. don't know. ranking points means a big decision for players on whether to compete or not as points are vital for pros, especially their bread and butter. take us through some of the reaction them back on to this story. while union wimbledon decision to ban russian and bell russian players from participating in this years to a tennis tournament at may have serious consequences for the entire sport as a whole. with the men's and women's sports tennis associations deciding to drop ranking points. as you said, there are in connection to that the world's former number one tennis player naomi assault osaka is already saying that she might not even participate in the tournament this year. i would say like, the decision is kind of affecting like my mentality going into graphs like i'm 100 percent. sure. if i'm gonna go there, it's kind of like, i don't want to see pointless, no pun intended. but like i said, i'll soc is not the only one that frustrated with that decision though top french player of top ranch tennis player lucas p a actually became the 1st player to outright boy caught this year's wimbledon tournament. he said that the decision was an injustice not only for the russian and bel russian players who were band, but also for those who are still allowed to compete. i was in no way associated with his decision, which i do not agree with. i understand the frustration of the russian players and the injustice of it, but now there is an injustice for $240.00 players instead of 12. it was never a unanimous decision that i know we don't even know if there was a vote. in any case, all the players i have spoken door against it. on top of that, the current world, number one tennis player, novak joke of, it said that wimbledon made the wrong decision in deciding to ban these russian and bella russian players. he said that the tournament administration had plenty of options, but just decided not to pursue them. so clearly a lot of players are upset about all this, this mixing of politics and sport. and we're gonna have to see, to what extent is it really going to backfire on tennis as a whole? interesting precedent has been set by the players. we'll see that on full stone. thanks very much for bringing us through that ortiz don quarter now, a summit of the sodium quad nations made up of japan. the u. s. s. trillion and india has gotten underway in tokyo. member states praised their relations and reiterated their goals of establishing a, quote, free and open indo pacific. several leaders made speeches focusing on issues related to the block, including taking action on climate change. on providing economic assistance to the pacific r t contributor rti to cruise thing is following the summits. the u. s. president continues to try and persuade new delhi to join the russian sanctions. be god so made in rich be in which still not in there may be jap, i'm prime minister to me. you should state recently a prime minister, anthony albany. and us present your bided attendance summit into q. in fact, this is one of the most important summits for the, for leaders ever since the go to know why the spend to make. but what came out of the summit is that the god is emerging as it can all make for bad. all of these countries are going to operate on multiple levels and multilateral trade, as well as by the true trade. the announcement all be in do not make it work, is be the highlight of this summit. also what emerged from the summit was in 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r&r bowl -- and the honorable mac thornberry. they can talk to us about the appropriations process. i want to start at a very general sense because as we all know ukraine, russia has dominated the national security space for a wild now and probably will continue to do so. despite the fact that the nds does focus on china, i am curious if you could give me your broad take away, each of you, about whether you think, how you think the nds -- should focus more on russia, and how you think the overall security situation in eastern europe should be impacting the nds more, if it should. michelle: thanks for hosting us and putting this great discussion together. i think the strategy got the balance about right. we have a tendency, as do all countries that confront near-term crises, to focus on the five major targets, the immediate challenge. there is a risk we could put all of our bandwidth into today's challenge and underperform in terms of preparing for the future. i think what they have tried to do by saying russia's invasion of ukraine is the acute challenge, we have to focus on helping ukraine beat back the aggression to make sure we are as strong as possible in deterring any further aggression against nato, but we have to keep a good portion of our bandwidth focused on preparing for that more significant threat from a rising china in the longer term. if you are the defense department of a global power in a country with global interests, you have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. we have to be able to do the near-term crisis management piece and the long-term preparation. that is easier said than done, and i really like dr. hicks'framework of thinking in three setups. i agree the middle one is the hardest to get right, but i personally believe that even on the china side, deterring china against taiwan there is a near-term deterrence challenge we need to be focusing even more of our attention on. how do we take the capabilities we have, combined them into ways with new operational concepts to meaningfully strengthen deterrence in the next five to seven years vis-a-vis taiwan, given all of the actions and the rhetoric coming out of china under president xi. >> you think the u.s. in the world has five to seven years? michelle: right now president xi is focused on dealing with the covid crisis that is not getting better. his economy is suffering and slow growth is always very frightening for the chinese communist party in terms of maintaining their order and control. he has the 20th party congress coming up where he will want to focus on stability and consolidating his power. i also think he wants to pursue a political and economic coercion strategy vis-a-vis taiwan. the use of force is a last resort. nor do i think his military force is ready for that. if after five years of trying the star trek absorption into the borg strategy does not work, we could be facing a situation where he says this is a legacy issue, i want to take care of this on my watch, i'm going to reach for use of force because it will only get harder for me in the future as the u.s. fields more and more capability. i think the timeframe could be sooner or later, but we have to be focused on that, not just china as a long-term challenge but china in the midterm as well. >> that exact argument you just made about a legacy issue in dealing with it right now, there a lot of people who think that is why that amir boudin has gone into you great -- that is why vladimir putin has gone into ukraine right now. congressman lauria, you look at this as someone who is sitting through congress right now. i wonder what your overall perspective is on this, whether it is enough focus in the current budget on russia and ukraine, russia specifically, given the focused on china. rep. lauria: a lot of things on michelle said. we have to be laser focused on china and their aggression in taiwan and the timeframe between now and 2027. i think there are significant gaps in this year's budget to adequately address that. i look at it and think about where are we different now than we were a few months ago before the february invasion? this is an opportunity. we had a very different impression of russia and russia's conventional military capabilities prior to the current situation with the recent invasion of ukraine. on top of that we have a host of nato and soon nato allies stepping up. what the last administration was trying to do was get nato to contribute more and we have been very surprised by germany and others. so we have an opportunity if we want to leverage our allies and partners and europeans are stepping up to find more and we have significant forces there, i do not think is a question of allocating more resources to europe, because we have more players also willing to do more. if anything if we want to leverage the allies and partners concept, we have the opportunity to allow our partners in europe to take more of the burden and for us to provide more of our resources to the very urgent situation in this timeframe between now and 2027 with regards to china and taiwan. courtney: do you have any concerns, some of your colleagues have talked about concerns for readiness? the u.s. has provided one third of the javelins they had in the arsenal to ukraine. looking at that, do you think there's enough built in to maintain the u.s. readiness, or are you will concerned about stockpiles getting low? rep. luria: is something we will look at closely as we continue to transfer material equipment that we have adequate replenishment. if we can get more into the navy , where i focus a lot of my attention, i have significant concerns with proposed decommissioning of 24 ships, only building eight. the long-term capacity gaps that creates, it came up in an earlier conversation about the number of missiles. in the navy you might quantify that. if you look at the next seven-year period, we will learn up to 1600 through the decommissioning of the remaining 22 cruisers and the slow procurement of new platforms. you also talked earlier about the industrial base. there is capacity there. why are wynne lee building two destroyers. we can build -- why are we only building two destroyers? i think there is a host of things, it is not only the platforms, it is the munitions and all of that combined together. we need to be laser focused on what is needed for the deterrent. there is a lot of talk about needing to be able to deter in the near term but i do not think we are building a force to do that. it is clear you cannot build an entire new force in the five-year period. we have to fight with what we have today. we are divesting of that. rather than investing in the readiness, we are just saying divest to invest. it is obsolete, we need to move on to new concepts that do not equal any weapon systems that exist. ai, quantum computing, this is part of the mix in the future. we have to focus on the near-term, and we look at the budget, myself and many sides of the aisle, this is just a vesting too much. courtney: you mentioned deterrence. rep. luria: my feeling about the national defense strategy versus the previous administration is i think what we need is a deterrence by denial. you have to have the force and the presence to do that. i feel that shifting away from integrated deterrence, which is a deterrence by punishment. if you do not have the forces ready, if you do not have the authorities in place, that will be another discussion on the policies of strategic ambiguity and whether we need to change our posture relative to that, i do not feel like the shift to integrated deterrence is creating a force that can actually accomplish a deterrence by denial strategy in order to prevent the fait accompli. courtney: now that you're looking at this from a step back and hopefully you have more time now that you are not on the armed forces committee. what you think, specifically whether the defense budget and national defense strategy has the right mix on what it is specific to russia and china and also these other factors, north korea, iran. is there anything you're looking at right now with the situation with russia, do you worry about the readiness of u.s. military and how the money is being appropriated in this budget? max: i am struck by how we are having some of the same debates we've been having for a while. when president obama wanted to pivot to asia, the concern was you are turning away from something, in that case middle east terrorism was our primary concern, to focus on this one thing. united states does not have the luxury of focusing in one area or on one adversary and vladimir putin's invasion of ukraine is a slap in the face reminder that there are other threats to the world that we have to pay attention to. i am also struck by a lot of continuity in this national defense strategy that secretary hicks was talking about from the last one. it is words on the paper. the question is what change are you going to make that would make that become a reality? that is where you do get into a 4% increase that does not keep up with inflation is not enough to deal with, to implement that strategy given the world we all see clearly now. then you start getting tensions, that is where readiness becomes often the easiest and quickest thing to. we saw that before in the later stages of the obama administration where we had accident rates going up and we were at one point in the trump administration, north korea poses a threat and we have to move precision munitions from the middle east to the pay com area and in the middle east commanders start worrying they are short. i agree is not all about top line in numbers, but it does begin the conversation of what capability you have, how much in that budget. frankly i was encouraged to hear her say we will take this plan, we will add whatever inflation is, which is going to be pretty high, and then not lose capability like these ships they want to get rid of prematurely come and build from there. that is probably an approach that does begin to implement the words on this paper. courtney: what other capability gaps that you can point to, specifically with the threat to china that have you concerned right now? michelle: maybe to provoke a little debate, i have a slightly different view. i think that the u.s. does have the objective of being able to deny chinese aggression success against taiwan. we have to be careful of the metrics. it is not necessarily numbers of traditional platforms. this is going to be a very different environment where we have huge geographic advantage. they will try to create a fait a ccompli very quickly before u.s. forces can mass in the theater. it will be a highly contested environment where ships and planes that go in early will be very vulnerable. deterrence by denial may require some different operations. for example, my favorite example came out of the rand study which is taking long range anti-ship missiles and putting them on standoff air force platforms that can target -- can i finish? i am just saying, we have to have an operational concept in mind before we start making judgments about do we have enough destroyers, do we not have enough destroyers? the other thing is what i do think across the board we have munition shortfalls. as we are seeing in terms of ukraine situation in our own arsenal, but this is constantly a top concern of the commander. services constantly trade-off munitions to pay for shiny objects and i think we have to focus. the last comment for security systems. the big lesson from ukraine is that after crimea, the u.s., the canadians, the u.k., other nato members spent time training and working with ukrainians to make them more of a porcupine. let's become very indigestible to the russian bear. not my phrase, tony thomas used to use this. we did similar work in the baltics. the same approach needs to happen in taiwan. how do you give them asymmetric capabilities to create costs to slow things down to buy time for the national community to support. rep. luria: i think you had a perfect scene setter and i think that is an investment we should definitely make. the reason i jumped in as i asked the air force at our hearing how many is in the budget. it was not a piece of data at their fingertips. it was not high on the radar for the air force as an investment for their contribution. i asked her the same question about offensive minded laying. a huge asset to help create this porcupine, both for us to have the capabilities as well as for taiwan to invest in the capabilities for their own defense. i think you also set the scene perfectly about the defense standoff ranges. we have not invested insufficient anti-surface capability. we are still relying on harpoons. it was developed in the 1970's. there been improvements in that missile and now we have mabel strike missiles and other capabilities. we are at a disadvantage which presents us -- which prevents us from being within the chinese missile range in certain phrases of a conflict. i also think there are other capabilities we do not think about. the navy is bad at building small. the chinese have very small, very heavily armed vessels that have a higher firepower with longer-range anti-surface missiles. i think we need to think about a mix, both for dispersion, i think the marine corps plans to develop their concepts, but also i do not like the budgets we get follow the words that we hear. the warfare vessel that will carry the marine core surface missiles, navy strike missiles, it is part of that context. it is delayed again two more years. if we are looking at the near-term, this is a relatively inexpensive investment. why aren't we making it a priority? why is it pushed two years down the road? i think the anti-surface capability is a big concern i have. courtney: is that something you've communicated to the military? rep. luria: i think is a combination, we can get started, we have capability and we can invest in more of it. i think it could be used more in their operational plans in how they disperse. we cannot continue to wait for the perfect solution. going back to the platforms, you have to have the platforms to deliver. divest to invest, capabilities we may be able to develop in 20 years. we do not have the luxury of waiting for them. we have to be creative with the platforms we have. there are potential capabilities for transferring eps to carry launchers for smaller craft. in this budget they want to decommission nine lcs. the capabilities it does have is the surface warfare module. even if it is a question of moving forces around because the lcs has a lower capability, that could free up destroyers to reposition and be in areas where they are more necessary to the fight. we have to get to what you wrote. in 72 hours we need to be able to target all of their anti-service capabilities. in my mind that is the ball for deterrence. i do not know if you've shifted from that -- in my mind that is the goal for deterrence. i do not know if you have shifted from that position. michelle: nope. courtney: secretary hicks says you been trading the ukrainians, providing all these weapons. did deterrence work? is there some way deterrence -- is there some way the u.s. can shift deterrence to maybe deter china from an invasion of taiwan? mac: it is always possible for bad guys to do bad things. you want to discourage it. you will not always be successful, which is why you need a military to win a conflict in case deterrence should fail. that is basics. you can also argue that perhaps vladimir putin was looking not only of how many ships and tanks and planes we had, he is looking at our divisions domestically and a whole variety of factors and thought this is the time when he could get away with it. remember deterrence is in the mind of the adversary and it has to be credible, not only what you have, but it could be used. to go back to my theme for just a second, it may be simplistic to look at topline defense budgets, but it is also a clear signal to vladimir putin and president xi of our national commitment to develop the capabilities we are talking about to defend ourselves. i was struck by how many times secretary hicks mentioned our nuclear modernization. it was not that long ago that it was do we really need a triad, can we get by with two? i think ukraine ends that debate. the harder question when it comes to deterrence is now we not only have russia, but we have china that has -- that is dramatically increasing their nuclear capability. is our capability credible in that three-way situation, or not? my personal opinion is i do not think we have thought enough about that. two more points. when it comes to us and china, conventional is important. it is also some of these newer capabilities, some of which we are behind in. hypersonic's, anti-satellite weapons. they have more data than anyone for ai. getting those nontraditional defense suppliers on the playing field is essential. to go back to michelle's point, developing this capability or that capability does not count for much unless you have the operational concepts to use them. that was a key finding of the strategy commission in 2018 and it is still an area where i am not sure we are quite up to snuff. we will develop hypersonic's, but what will we do with it? how will you use it? courtney: there's the operational concepts but there is the authority -- rep. luria: there's the operational concepts but there is the authority. i think we need to have a debate in congress about authority. if you have amassing of forces on the coast of china and indications they will cross the strait. we can want to be a deterrent by denial and want to intervene, but what authority exists to do that? we cannot just introduce forces where hostilities are likely without coming to congress. we are not clear. our strategic ambiguity is ambiguous. it is time to have a debate about strategic ambiguity. my personal opinion is we should have strategic clarity and say we will come to the defense of taiwan in order to maintain the status quo in that last part is important. the debates are not being had in congress because the president will need position time. if you're going to wait to come to congress while they go 140 nautical miles, those things do not happen that quickly. courtney: are you saying you think there should be an naumf? rep. luria: if we have strategic clarity, everything would fall in behind that because there would be no questions that would be our national policy that we would come to the defense of taiwan. if we wait to have that debate until there are forces moving, i think that delay will lead to a fait accompli. courtney: the underlying idea of strategic ambiguity is supposed to be idea that the u.s. would defend taiwan. that is an assumption of it. but it also upends up the issue of strategic simultaneity. you said you think there five to seven years before china acts on taiwan in a military perspective. if they were to speed that up, where the u.s. is with this huge investment in ukraine, helping out in the war against russia, do you think china -- if china were to act on taiwan tomorrow, with usb able to come to the defense of taiwan come is the u.s. ready for that right now? rep. luria: not the way we need to be. i think the u.s. would come to taiwan's defense if the aggression were unprovoked. all of the wargaming we read about suggests if we just play with what we have, if we confront this with what we have, the results are suboptimal. there is a lot more risk than we should be accepting in that scenario. i think there's a lot that needs to be done. i do not want to say we cannot deter, but it would be more by cost than by denial. we want to get to the point we can deny their success. part of this equation of rapidly fielding new capabilities is building on what the secretary did when she was undersecretary of acquisition, which is creating a speedway or a highway for largely commercial technologies to be more rapidly integrated into the force. there are ai tools today that can give us a huge decision advantage. they need to be up and down the entire chain of command. we should be leveraging those because if you have more accurate and faster decision than your adversary that will be a huge advantage. there are things today we can do to build our resilience on the cyber side and the space side we should be investing in, largely commercial. it does not need a new military requirement. it is not need to go through the 5000 acquisition process. we need to create that fast track and train acquisition professionals to be special ops, acquirers of commercial technologies which we have not done at scale yet. this is an unmanned system. whether uav, this is a critical part of regaining capacity in a theater that is very far away from us and in the backyard of a potential adversary. there is a lot in that regard we can do as well that is a key element of how we are trying to bolster deterrence. courtney: do you think that right now the pentagon is being aggressive enough? michelle: i think they are starting to lean forward on this. i would like to see them lean forward even more. one of the challenges is we need to bring along congress, particular appropriators, who tend to be very conservative about how they spend taxpayer dollars. we are in a catch 22 were something like the navy will say we would like to buy a few unmanned surface vehicles so we can play around with them, experiment, develop a new operational concept come and congress comes back and says no, you do not know what you want to do with these things, so why would you let -- why would we let you buy, you have one common the navy says i need more than one to experiment. you're in this catch 22 because of risk aversion. this is the time where we have to lean forward to allow experimentation on a more rapid basis and except a little bit of risk that we might have some failures in the development and concept process that you learn from and then get to a better answer. courtney: i am curious what you think about that as someone who has the purse strings? rep. luria: authorizer's and appropriators. i was certainly on the armed services committee. we were all in to adding the $24 billion additionally last year and we did it more thoughtfully on the house. -- on the house side than the senate side. we focused on what are the things that are needed for the pacific. the navy only requested one destroyer. you talk about the standard industrial base, you have to build at least two destroyers because you have two shipyards. we preserve two cruisers. we were focused on the china scenario. i think there have been questions about, we want to bring before you this idea of an unmanned surface vessel. what are you going to put into it, what are you going to use it for? we can show you other platforms you can put 64 cells on and you can use the concept and it does not have to be unmanned, that can be done at a low cost. you could have eight epfs -- the cost is the same of 1 -- think about the amount of firepower you get out of that. there is a balance between their being to explain what they want the platform for and there is a history. there is a history of failed shipbuilding programs we have lived through. we are getting there, but it is taking much longer than we anticipated. i think there is the history of it and the lack of clarity of where you going to do with this. for some people who have operated ships on the technical engineering side, what is doubtful you can have it i'm in surface vessel that can operate for that time -- one is doubtful you can have a surface vessel that can operate for that period of time. courtney: one thing we have not touched on at all is the threat from north korea and iran. north korea just launched a ballistic missile. i was struck earlier this meet that the japanese defense minister talked about the threat from north korea as being imminent, which is not a word we hear often in north korea right now. i'm curious, do you think the way the nds is structured, it has north korea and iran as a secondary threat. you think that is appropriate or do we need to be more focused on the threat from north korea? and you think the budget reflects enough of the developments for the threat that is posed from north korea. mac: short answer on that is no. again, what you see, it a dynamic situation. if north korea thinks we are distracted by ukraine, then the logical thing is this is the chance we can get away with something we might not have been able to get away with before or at lesser cost. then iran is the same. they are pulling out of the middle east. now this is the time to push our allies in yemen to do more against saudi arabia and others there. you will have aggressors always looking to take advantage of opportunities. that is what you are seeing now. what you do about it? as elaine said, you have to keep your eye on the main thing. for us, the most consequential threat is china. you also have to have the capability to deter other kinds of aggression, whether it be in europe, asia, or the middle east. that does get back to does a 4% increase that does not keep up with inflation really meet that standard when it comes to implementing? i do not think it does. if i can chime in for a second on what they were saying, i do think there has to be a partnership between the administration and congress, and there are cultural issues in both the pentagon and congress on being able to move at the speed that events require. if north korea decides they will do something, we have to be able to move appropriately at that speed, and a budget process that takes two years to get the money appropriated, that is before you ever start building something, it does not cut it. you cannot treat everything the same. carriers and big expensive things are one thing, but a pool of money for ai applications, what the ai commission recommended congress to, more of a portfolio approach for these fast-moving technologies does help. when it comes to some of these threats, especially from china come into a lesser extent north korea and iran and russia, but with some of these threats, that flexibility of funding would help augment what congress and secretary lord have done as far as the acquisition authorities. they are in place, but you have to do with the culture and the money to get something out of it. courtney: is there anything else other than ai? is there a pull of funding you think could be applied? rep. luria: i think shipping. there been pilot programs on that but there been huge delays with cr's. another thing about resources and how they are allocated. you authorize the strategic deterrence fund, and you talk about -- the nuclear deterrent remains the cornerstone of our national defense, we have to keep the economy on track. big able to relieve some of that pressure from the navy shipbuilding budget, i think the authorizer's are always willing to do it but appropriators have never appropriated any funds. michelle: ai is important, absolutely. a broader category of bridge funding for innovation adoption. right now you have many new innovative technologies being demonstrated or piloted. you go to softworks and here are the best in class. you wait 18 to 24 months we will get you in the program. for some companies that is a death sentence. when you do have a pool of money that says based on the successful prototype we will continue to develop that capability and get it ready for full-scale production when you can get the program funds there. those bridging funds are key for a range of ready and emerging technologies. one more thing. every time we have a crisis, we make progress in making the system be more responsive and rapid. when the crisis is over we revert back to being slow and bureaucratic. there have been amazing innovations in the declassification use and sharing of intelligence in this crisis we should not lose going forward. there been huge innovations in getting things released and moved into the hands of our allies and ukraine that we should not lose going forward. i think part of what we need to do is try to hold on to some of those innovations and some of that progress when the crisis is over. courtney: i want to open it up to the audience in just a moment. congresswoman, i want to ask you one thing as a navy veteran. secretary hicks spoke about investing in people. i wonder if you think the current budget does enough of that? rep. luria: this is a personal thing back home. we have had tragic losses on the george washington recently, three suicides in rapid succession. something similar happened on the george h. w. bush. there is always talk about investing in the number of people and strength has to match the platforms, and i think the navy's budget this year they are roughly equal the requirement. investing in people, i think the navy, through this process of evaluating what happened on the george washington and beyond in the ship repair and availability and the stress on junior sailors , that highlights some investments we need to make in people and quality-of-life and people as well come in how we assign our most junior sailors. it is multifaceted. not just for people but for policies. i think the navy will come out with recommendations that will guide us. from my own observations visiting a ship and personal experience, i can say there are investments that are necessary to ensure the future help of our force. courtney: are there any recommendations the navy will make? rep. luria: i cannot speak for the navy, but at newport news there is a carrier for fueling ongoing. we have eight more carriers three fuel that will built or going to be built. i think we need to invest in things that do not sound as sexy as new missile systems, but we have to have the sailors to operate the equipment. things like barracks and single sailor housing. that can friction point where people are taking two to does going to have additional hours each way to get to work. we have to look at those. i think our community, with partnerships as well between federal, state and local. having the shipbuilder is something that drives the economy. i think we need to look at pairing across all levels of government to make sure we can invest. michelle: if i could add a point on talent management. i think all the services arena 20 century talent management approach and could certainly get even more out of the incredible talent. i will give you one example. the vast majority of officers who come out of the academy or rotc programs are stem graduates. those are the folks the scholarships go to, by and large . once you are in, you become an officer of the line, you will be placed wherever. few people use their engineering backgrounds. there is so much talent in the force that we are not actually leveraging because we have not created career paths that promotes, you cannot make general officer or flag officer as a technologist. it is very difficult. better investing in developing, managing, placing, allocating the talent we have is part of the solution as well as attracting additional quality talent from outside. rep. luria: building on top of that, i think in the process of design, procurement, acquisition, we have lost that expertise. the engineering level expertise within the military in uniform. breed engineers, ocean engineers, naval engineers, all of that capacity to provide that oversight so we do not -- i feel like there's not enough oversight in the services over those programs that leads us down some of the paths that are not successful. i think a combination of that with the needs of the services themselves to use that talent to a better effect is important. courtney: it is interesting to have that conversation when we are also hearing more about recruiting issues in the army. mac: recruiting and retention has been changing over time. covid accelerated some of those changes. one of the factors i think we are still playing catch up on is the family dynamics to retain you have to consider the whole family needs. i think we are still not doing that. rep. luria: carter made a priority when he was secretary of defense that did not catch on. michelle: this is a place where there been critics saying the department thinks too much about diversity and inclusion. diversity inclusion dramatically increases your recruitment for. why should we be increasing our recruitment on half of the population? we need to focus on all of the united states and get the best and brightest from every background. every race, creed, and color, to bring those people into serve our country. if you open that aperture you are dramatically improving your talent for and your chances of recruiting the best and brightest. it is not a side issue. it is core to dealing with the recruiting retention and performance issues the department struggles with. courtney: i want to take a few questions from the audience. yes? >> thank you. i work at the center for east asian studies at john hopkins science. thank you for the great conversation. i want to take it back to taiwan. there is an interesting poll that came out in march that found more believe japan would come to the defense of taiwan than the united states would come to the defense of taiwan. shockingly, still this poll was conducted only a few weeks after the president sent a bipartisan delegation to visit taiwan, which one of our distinguished panelists was a part of. i wanted to ask all of the panelists if the taiwanese believe japan is more likely to come to the defense of taiwan, should we assume that same thought is being held by dcp leadership, and does this failure represent an inability to communicate willingness or inability to demonstrate we have the capability to come to taiwan's defense. how do we rectify whether it is either or or a combination of both? thank you. rep. luria: strategic ambiguity does create ambiguity, as the title would suggest. however, there are challenges associated with abandoning that policy, perfectly in terms of creating a provocation that would get china to act sooner, but also diminishing the faith other allies and partners in the region can use to be helpful to taiwan without having to be forced to choose sides. that said, i think we could do a better job of clarifying our commitment and our resolve, both our willingness to defend taiwan under certain circumstances, meaning they are not declaring independence and creating the crisis themselves. we can stretch the boundaries of ambiguity by being clear in our work. most importantly, we can be clear in our actions in terms of the extent to which we are helping them with the self-defense, the extent to which we are enforcing international law in and around the straight, the extent to which we are investing in the right capabilities and showing up again and again diplomatically. i think the biggest problem we have with deterrence is china has created this narrative of u.s. inevitable decline and they have drug their own kool-aid -- they have druink their own kool-aid. we have to through our actions and words demonstrate that is a miscalculation. i think there is a cautionary tale. if putin does not succeed in ukraine there is a cautionary tale for president xi. putin underestimated ukrainians and nato and the u.s. xi needs to pause. he is a very serious risk of underestimating the u.s. and international community and how we would respond to unprovoked aggression against taiwan. mac: can i add a couple of things? number one, be careful what you say, and follow-up and do what you say. that adds credibility. we are still in a rebuilding credibility mode around the world right now. i'm not surprised by those numbers, partly because the shift that is happening with japan is a -- is pretty significant. i am still blown away by germany and the european changes and how encouraging that is. we should not take lightly the shift that is also occurring in japan. we have allies that are taking significant steps to step up and be a more significant contributor to pushing back against aggression. >>>> thank you the foundation. great to see each of you again. roger asked some great questions of the secretary on how we can better deter aggression against our allies and partners. secretary fournay, you mentioned security assistance. it seems to me one of the key lessons from what we have seen in ukraine is that it is much easier to arm partners before the invasion that after, and about provoking authoritarian bowlers -- authoritarian in democracies before the invasion starts. -glad to see discussions on taiwan. i and mindful there is a $14 billion backlog in arms sales to taiwan. i am mindful the ethics team will not get there for a long time. the harpoon missiles that will make them the porcupine you think they should be may not arrive until after the window admiral davidson talked about. i am wondering and welcome comments from all of you. maybe there's legislation to focus on how we can deliver arms quicker after the announcement. things like are the countries at the top of the queue, what can we provide in terms of interim capabilities while they are waiting for that. what can we do in advance of delivery and training. there are prohibitions on training with taiwan that are self-imposed. what can we do to expedite full operational capability when they finally get those weapons. interested in thoughts on those comments. >> i am very interested in the training piece. there is talk about how the u.s. training the ukrainians made a big difference. >> the sms system is perennially slow. that is still true. i think that i would like to see more fast-track established, not just from when the crisis happens but building up deterrent capabilities of critical partners and allies. we went to accelerate the porcupine process. i would love to see that happen. maybe it has to be a presidential level designation, etc. i went through this in several cases in the obama administration where we had to bump people in the queue for strategic priorities. i think that is essential. there is an interagency task force specifically focused on the taiwan problem and accelerate these. some are affected by industrial base challenges. others are placed in the queue. there's an effort to try to do exactly what you are saying with regard to taiwan. the other thing holding us up with technology. i have long advocated an approach for rather than going through the concepts and at the very end asked the question, can we release this technology? where we are trying to build deterrent capabilities across a number of partners, why do we do that upfront? for the sake of building deterrents in europe we will release this technology to the following allies and partners. it is frontloaded as a strategic policy decision had not something that holds of the train at the very end case-by-case by case. there are reforms that that can improve the performance of the process. >> i would in addition to your question, the partner you addressed training ahead of time. in a broad sense training and operability and operational plans with taiwan is an area that requires focusing more attention. i think they can be injunction -- conjunction with new systems. the ball drops tomorrow, we have not trained with the taiwanese. it is not like other areas and conflicts we have been prepared for over time. we can drop in with nato allies, the japanese with south korea the common language, the ability to talk to each other. investment in time and focus on those issues. mac: i would add we still do not move at the speed the world moves when it comes to security assistance. back to the point michelle made, we have a crisis. we will do a task force for that crisis. what about the rest of the places we want to make for difficult for aggressors? it needs to be a broader change. secondly, we have amazing new tools now for training and simulation that are incredibly realistic and don't require having all the ships burning diesel or whatever. we need to take advantage of those. our partners around the world can benefit from the training and simulate an capabilities and elevate. >> we have time for one more. >> two fax have changed on the ground in washington. how does that change the way you think about how we will fund national defense? >> i guess i can jump in on that. earmarks have returned. there is a limited about the -- they cost any -- there are a limited amount. hasn't had any effect on the defense spending or how we go about that. >> on the budget control, thank god it is gone. now we can look at how dangerous the world is, what our needs are and have a budget that matches. we have the opportunity now. we had to use workarounds with funding. now you can be more transparent. i think probably that is a good thing. >> the real problem now is continuing resolutions forever, because innovation and new starts are key to getting us the capability we need for the future. we heard secretary hicks talked about the department able to send clear and consistent signals to the market, to industry on where to invest, put your r&d, all of that. continuing resolutions undermine that. he creates unpredictability. investors and companies likely can't put the extra money into something that might be true in five to 10 years because it is too much uncertainty. that is the next thing we have to go after. extremely difficult in the polarized political environment we are in but it has real implications. >> and the signals don't just go to the market. they go to couldn't -- putin and xi so it is a crucial thing for us to do. >> when you were chair, we passed it through committee unanimously, right? >> thank you to the reagan institute and a wonderful panelists. thank you to all of you. 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